Word: hoodlum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dirty rat-nutty judge-hoodlum-lazy blood-sucking jobber- William Halitosis Thompson-blustering loudmouth, irresponsible mountebank-blubbering jungle hippopotamus-lurching, shambling imbecile-flabby jowls of a barnyard hog-two jackass ears, a cowboy hat and an empty space between-chambermaid in a ranch bunkhouse-skunk...
...angry Thompson crowd fell upon the heckling egger, almost tore him to bits before he was rescued by police. Ten minutes later when quiet had been restored, Mayor Thompson continued: "That hoodlum Lyle sent one of his gangsters over here to break up this meeting. The nutty judge lives with the hoodlums, the dirty...
...entitled Al Capone, The Biography Of A Self-Made Man* It was written by Fred D. Pasley, onetime rewrite man for the Chicago Tribune, often collaborator with Alfred ("Jake") Lingle. Author Pasley seems to know his gangs. He portrays the rise to a tycoondom of vice of once obscure Hoodlum Capone, gives it a macabre grandeur. Author Pasley does not hesitate to link the Big Shot himself to many a gruesome murder. Final sentence of his biography...
...including Edmund Lowe as the gunmau chief, are stencils. The story is the one about the society Robin Hood who falls in love with a nice girl and keeps appointments with her between bank robberies. Few will accept as verity the huge town mansion of the young and naif hoodlum, or his devoted butler, or the robbery of the bank whose president is kidnaped at church by gunmen dressed like ushers, or Lowe's stubborn march upstairs to death in a dark room. But none of its unlikelihoods impair the plot. So finely realized in Good Intentions are handsome photography...
With the City Council and Association of Commerce stirring at the outcry of the Press, the Chicago police were filled with confusion and dismay. A general round-up of "Who's Hoodlum" (list lately compiled and .published by a citizens' committee) was ordered and the police stations were crowded with hundreds of idlers, toughs, men out of work. A few with police records were detained, but most were released. The Tribune roared that a certain gunman would soon be apprehended. Into the Detective Bureau marched Sam Hunt, one of the Capone ''mob," with a onetime city...